Antigua
Trip Start
Dec 2007
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24
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Trip End
Feb 2008
Antigua,
Guatemala
Saturday, January 26, 2008
We had the best breakfast when the bus stopped at the border, just tortillas from a roadside stall but possibly the best we have had yet. We didnt realise we were at the border as we were expected to head down towards Copan and cross the border much later but it transpired that we crossed the border at the top of Honduras. So we ignored the money changers thinking we would change money at the border.... doh! once we realised we were at the border it was too late and we were left with $70USD in Honduran Limpiras which the rest of the world value as useless! we also did have any guatemalan quetzals so we missed out on lunch at the lunch stop.
We arrived at Guatemala city and were harrased by taxi driver wanting to charge us exhorbitant rates to Antigua or even to the local bus station. we waited for them to lose interest and slipped out the side door and found a much cheaper taxi driver. No sooner that we had arrived at the local bus station than we were on a chicken bus heading to Antigua. My backpack fits into the overhead rack but we ended up balancing Jusīs on our laps, not that easy given the speed at which the buses fly around hairpins.
As usual we hadnt bothered to arrange accomodation and given we arrived at 3pm we soon found that all our picks and even the touts picks were full. We started to wander from street to street before arriving at a place where a young 10 year old took us to a hostel where we had a basic room with shared bathroom and toilets. It was very clean, the ladie lovely and life was good again.
